The good news is that instead of research that might lead to something that is meaningfully super intelligent, or even intelligent in any moral agent sort of way, instead we've put all the AI funding into LLMs and transformer architectures. There's likely little to no research with any odds of actually progressing in that direction because of LLMs instead sucking up all the oxygen. There's nothing to worry about in the near future, and anyone telling you otherwise has something to sell you, or really doesn't know what they're talking about.

If something happens that causes us to actually need to grapple with the idea of a sentient machine in the next 50-70 years, society will have gone on a very different course than it seems to be, and we'll all be very old if we're still around.